Joss Joiner

Name: Joss Joiner

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Grade: 12th

School: Bayview Secondary School

Hobbies and Interests: Woodwork, Reading, Plants

Appearance: Joss is 5'11" and weighs near 170 lbs. He isn't muscular or fat, with his arms and legs in an average, healthy condition. His hands are rough and slightly callused and his feet are similar on the bottom while smooth on the top. His European heritage gives him a peachy skin tone, tanned from his work in the garden, while his arms and legs have a light layer of hair on them. His round head bottoms out with an angular jaw line and cleft chin. His mouth rests at the neutral point between a smile and frown. His nose is slightly marred by a few scars from splinters but nothing serious. His brown eyes have an air of playfulness in them as he watches others with them. His brown hair is unkempt and short, often underneath a dark green cap with a blue bill. He wears blue jeans almost all the time with a black leather belt firmly cinched on the waist. His black sneakers show some wear already from his hobbies but are fairly new. His white undershirt lies beneath a shirt with a decal of a forest on it.

Biography: Joss was born to his parents Edison and Grace on October 5th, 1990. His parents were accomplished carpenters who made furniture for a living and were well known through-out the county for their works and in high demand. While they did their best to balance their work with family, it was often Joss' sister Emily who took care of him as he got older since she was seven years his senior. Emily didn't mind taking care of her little brother, but she did try and teach him some lessons on being self-sufficient as she couldn't always take care of him as they got older.

Despite their work keeping them busy, the siblings both admired their parents' skills as their house was mostly furnished by their creations. As he grew, Joss decided to work on smaller crafts made from the scrap-wood left over. He learned the basics from his parents and refined his techniques using various books from the library. While Joss' first projects were nothing of note, a keen eye for detail and a focused determination enabled him to start making sellable pieces in middle school. His little knick-knacks soon became part of the family's sold wares, but only to a limited extent as not to hinder his school-work.

When his sister Emily came back from her first year of college as Joss finished sixth grade, she brought home her boyfriend Yosuke, a Japanese transfer student staying for the break. He smirk when Joss introduced himself and called Joss "Jojo". When Joss asked why, Yosuke got out of his backpack a volume of a manga called "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure". As Yosuke explained the story and the differences between American and Japanese comic books, Joss quickly became a fan of the English translated manga available and kept his new nickname even after Yosuke had left.

Aside from manga, Joss also enjoyed reading in general. Expanding upon his love of wood, he started learning more and more about the trees and plants that make up the land. This culminated in a small garden he started during his freshman year of highschool along with him being able to avert some close calls when his friends tried to eat poisonous berries or jump into a grove of oak trees surrounded by poison oak.

Something he had difficulty just figuring out from books was his blossoming sexuality. In sophmore year he realized he was gay and came out to his parents and sister who were very accepting. All they saw was just a different side to the son they always loved. He's open about it at school but isn't letting it define him. Although if you call it straight acting he'd likely sigh and move on without making a big deal out of it.

Today, Joss is a highly successful student of Bayview Secondary School. He is a member of the anime/manga club, gardening club, the GLBT alliance, and is a set designer/workshop member for Bayview's high school productions and other student projects. In general he keeps to himself and his friends from his clubs and watches over them like a hawk. He is still somewhat popular due to his openess of his sexuality as well as the beauty of his works, resulting in several date invitations and work requests in his locker a week. The latter he gladly does for the challenges the various requests provide but mostly ignores the former since he isn't really interested right now. He's mainly concentrated on joining his parents in making furniture and also someone who can just come up and show him what they've got to offer instead of just putting it on a piece of paper after going through several edits. He's also been working on a project for his family to see at the end of the year after graduation.

Advantages: Adept at handling both wood and the tools to manipulate it. His eye for details and extreme focus might pull through some spots that seem hopeless and would cause others to panic. His love of reading has gotten him a well developed brain that is decently versed in most subjects, especially plants.

Disadvantages: He is very trusting of his friends which could easily be used against him. Being faced with little adversity growing up might make the nightmares of the island too much for him to handle. Without an easily learned weapon or a woodcrafting tool he'll likely be left with only his brains to save himself since he's not that impressive physically.

Designated Number: Male student no. 128

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Designated Weapon: Camo Gear

Conclusion: Well, B128 didn't exactly receive a woodcrafting tool or an easily learned weapon, but at least he can blend in with the trees!

'The above biography is as written by Whirlpool531. No edits or alterations to the author's original work have been made.'

Evaluations
Kills: None

Killed By: N/A

Collected Weapons: Camo Gear (assigned), Sledgehammer (dropped by Celeste Beaumont)

Allies: Jay Holland, John Smith, Sunil Savarkar, Acacia Salinger, Roman Jackson, Simon Telamon

Enemies: None

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Other/Trivia

 * Joss' name was an intentional homage to the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series and its theme of having the main protagonists all being nicknamed "Jojo".

Threads
Below is a list of threads that contain Joss, in chronological order.

The Past:

Pre-Game:


 * Whistle While You Whittle

V4:


 * I'll Need A Saviour
 * One of Three
 * Living In The Aftermath

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